Forgotten Dairies
The liar in the Punch Newspaper -By Abdullahi O. Haruna
Whoever comes to the media to paint a grotesque picture of ABU Zaria as a reflection of bigotry is nothing but a merchant of lies and fabricated mischief. People like that guy that a whole punch newspaper is giving full page to spew his diatribe should be asked to shut up.
Never seen a liar like the dude that said his life is under threat for renouncing his scholarship as a PG student of ABU Zaria over the killing of Deborah. According to him, he feared what befell Deborah in Sokoto may befall him in Zaria if care is not taken. That in Zaria, particularly in the department of political science where he was a student of comparative politics, he faced the fiercest discrimination ever; that he was forced to dress like northerners, forced to say Assalamu Alaikum and his rented apartment at the off-campus always targeted!
The same Zaria we graduated from oh; the same Zaria where you are likely to grasp more of Igbo words than even the Hausa language? Political science where you have representatives of all tribes as lecturers and students! Never seen a pugnacious liar like that dude.
People like this guy should be avoided at all costs, they are the triggers to the ethnic faultlines we have, they brew discord just to sustain the mutual distrust. He is as toxic and barbaric as the mob that lynched Deborah in Sokoto, bloodthirsty as the mob that killed the four souls in Lekki and like the deadly unknown gunmen that decapitated the lawmaker yesterday in Anambra.
Ahmadu Bello University Zaria admission is the most sought after in Nigeria, people travel from far to study in ABU. During my time, all the departmental student heads in the faculty of social sciences were either Igbo, Yoruba, Idoma and all Christians. You have all tribes as students, Zaria was a pilot ground and still a model of national cohesion. You have giant mosques and churches in the school with no one infringing on the right of another person.
Whoever comes to the media to paint a grotesque picture of ABU Zaria as a reflection of bigotry is nothing but a merchant of lies and fabricated mischief. People like that guy that a whole punch newspaper is giving full page to spew his diatribe should be asked to shut up.
Stop the Islamophobia, stop your ethnocentricism and be human, there is more gain in being human than a purveyor of hate and bigotry.
Yeyely musing
